POLL - How much RAM do you have?

[outpt]

32gb since ddr3. have seen usage around 20gb as i do alot of different things at the same time.

 

[Cheese_On_tsaot]

16GB... literaly nothing gaming wise needs more than 16 and no one has enough tabs open to be using it all up either, if they do they are just idiot's.
Like those folk who need everything running even though they only do 1 or 2 tasks, simply dumb.

 

[trog100]

Yeah, "will utilize" and "needs" are quite different.

But I think being overlooked in this discussion is the fact programs (which of course, includes the OS) really use a computer's virtual memory (RAM + PF). Not just RAM alone - even when gobs of RAM is installed. This is why the PF should never be disabled.

Then of course, there's the issue of the number of programs (including open tabs, instances of the same program, etc.) running at once.

I think Lex illustrates a major distinction here - though this is certainly not limited to "games". "Benefit greatly" is very subjective in some cases, critically essential in others.

IDK - just thinking out loud...

In a "game" (defined as a form of play and entertainment, that is NOT life or death), "greatly benefits", "needs" and "can utilize" simply suggests more "fun". Hardly serious.

In the guidance system of a missile traveling at Mach-3 (2,300MPH), "greatly benefits" suggests success or failure in a life or death scenario. Couldn't be more serious.

Frankly, I am not aware of any programs that "needs" 32GB to run. That is, it will fail to run if less RAM is installed. Many will (always along with the OS) utilize 32GB or even more. Some may "benefit" with 32GB compared to less.

Just something to ponder.

i have 32 gb of ram installed and my swap file is disabled.. the machine i am talking about is currently using nicehash crypto mining software and running 1 x 3080 and 1 x 3070 cards and browsing this forum.. it shows about 14 gb of ram in use..

my swap file has been turned off for years.. since many years ago a debate on this forum said windows would not run without one.. i set out to prove it could..

trog

 

[QuietBob]

OT: Which Asus 7970 u have?

I've got two, but I feel this conversation should be taken elsewhere

 

[SN2716057]

32Gb cause it was cheap, at the time.

 

[phill]

Depending on the hardware and which PC I'm using but any Ryzen or server I have is up to 128GB (when I get some for my two R730s) but the rest 32GB to 64GB is the norm. I try to run at least 1GB RAM per CPU thread... I use all of my systems with World Grid Computing and right now I'm hitting on 29GB of RAM with a few tabs open, Outlook, Excel, Chrome and Media player... It soon takes it up. Some of the work units I see run use 1GB or slightly more/less

Still some of my older machines DDR and DDR2, they are 1GB or 4GB depending on the RAM and CPU. Some of my older retro rigs have less than 512MB of RAM but I digress

 

[Dr. Dro]

hmm, playing borderlands 2 with dx 11 still smooth in my PC........

But Borderlands 2 is a DX9 game

If you mean 3 in DX11 mode, it actually runs alright for me, too. It's just the 12 version that stutters a megaton.

 

[Shrek]

How about 4GB people?

 

[P4-630]

How about 4GB people?

That's the almost forgotten past....

 

[lexluthermiester]

That's the almost forgotten past....

4GB is still commonly in use.

 

[Shrek]

Perhaps I can ask a related question

With Windows 10 my machine was using ~4 GB with email, Web surfing etc

Windows 11 (beta) seem closer to 6.5 GB; is this just the added debugging code?

 

[lexluthermiester]

Perhaps I can ask a related question

With Windows 10 my machine was using ~4 GB with email, Web surfing etc

Windows 11 (beta) seem closer to 6.5 GB; is this just the added debugging code?

This question belongs here.

 

[Shrek]

Moved

 

[Dr. Dro]

Perhaps I can ask a related question

With Windows 10 my machine was using ~4 GB with email, Web surfing etc

Windows 11 (beta) seem closer to 6.5 GB; is this just the added debugging code?

Insider releases aren't debug builds of Windows, these are too slow and generally don't work with shipped drivers, but it may have something to do with memory management optimization. As long as the memory is marked as usable (rather than free), it should be alright - it's just stuff Windows is keeping around for faster access

edit: oops - too late

 

[GreiverBlade]

for now 16gb but given that the kit i ordered for the hardware swap/upgrade a few weeks ago lowered in price ... i might go for 32 later

 

[windwhirl]

My older Haswell Core i3 build has 32 GB (pointless so far, since there's not much going on there, at least until I get a Core i7/Xeon for it, but RAM was cheap at the time, so I thought why not?).

My current Ryzen setup has 16 GB of RAM and I might consider bumping it to 32 GB. There have been a few instances of it running pretty close to the 16 GB limit, so if I see a good RAM deal I might take the leap.

The other common silly excuse we often hear is, "I disabled the page file and Windows didn't break" or "I didn't notice any difference" "so I left it disabled".

I'm not gonna dispute what anyone thinks about virtual memory management because it's way out of my league and I don't feel like diving through ten tons of Microsoft documentation to choose a side in this debate. I can assure anyone that disabling page file breaks kernel dumps, though. And those are kinda necessary to understand why a blue screen happened. So for me as an Insider, I need to have pagefile enabled regardless of any other reason.

 

[v12dock]

16GB and i'm usually sitting around 13-13GB used.

 

[theFOoL]

16GB and i'm usually sitting around 13-13GB used.

What you doing? and if I'm corrent if you have 4GB the OS will Page-File or whatever it's called to use sparely? or whatever that means

 

[27MaD]

The title says it all. I have 32GB myself.

People just don't want to believe it.

 

[Cheese_On_tsaot]

10,1 GB in use.
Try to guess what i am doing that is using that much memory

View attachment 211667

Something wrong with your system.

Video running, TPU open, Steam downloading.

 

[64K]

According to the Steam Hardware Survey the breakdown is:

4 GB
4.64%

6 GB
2.34%

8 GB
25.14%

12 GB
2.40%

16 GB
45.53%

More than 16 GB
11.81%

For gamers 16 GB is the most reported and 8 GB comes in at second place.

 

[FireFox]

Something wrong with your system.

Every System is different.

 

[TheLostSwede]

Every System is different.

I'd agree that there's something odd going on with your system, as I'm at around 5.5GB running a browser, VLC and a few background tasks.
Might want to check what's eating that much RAM.

 

[arni-gx]

But Borderlands 2 is a DX9 game

If you mean 3 in DX11 mode, it actually runs alright for me, too. It's just the 12 version that stutters a megaton.

OMG...... yes, my mistake........... its typo........ it should be BOrderlands 3, not borderlands 2..........

 

[Cheese_On_tsaot]

OMG...... yes, my mistake........... its typo........ it should be BOrderlands 3, not borderlands 2..........

BL games are awesome though so very easy to forgive the error